Digital Chart of the World (DCW) data for the United Kingdom (UK)

• Published by: University of Edinburgh
• Last updated: 24 April 2013
• Topic: Mapping
• Licence: Other Licence ; View licence information

Summary

This version of The Digital Chart of the World (DCW) is an Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI) product originally developed for the US Defense Mapping Agency (DMA) using DMA data. This data was downloaded from the Penn State web site and then converted to Shapefile format using ArcMap.

This dataset is derived from the Vector Map (VMap) Level 0 database; the third edition of the Digital Chart of the World. The second edition was a limited release item published 1995 09. The product is dual named to show its lineage to the original DCW, published in 1992, while positioning the revised product within a broader emerging-family of VMap products.

VMap Level 0 is a comprehensive 1:1,000,000 scale vector basemap of the world. It consists of cartographic, attribute, and textual data stored on compact disc read only memory (CD-ROM). The primary source for the database is the National Imagery and Mapping Agency's (NIMA) Operational Navigation Chart (ONC) series. This is the largest scale unclassified map series in existence that provides consistent, continuous global coverage of essential basemap features. The database contains more than 1,900 megabytes of vector data and is organized into 10 thematic layers. The data includes major road and rail networks, major hydrological drainage systems, major utility networks (cross-country pipelines and communication lines), all major airports, elevation contours (1000 foot (ft), with 500ft and 250ft supplemental contours), coastlines, international boundaries and populated places.

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2013-04-24
• Access contraints: The ARC/INFO version of DCW (which only exists in edition #02) is not public domain. The copyright for the ARC/INFO version of the data is held by ESRI; they sell the data on 4 CDs, on which the world is cut into tiles 5 by 5 degrees. Penn State only has permission to redistribute the data by country. The DCW dataset for the United Kingdom was downloaded, converted to shapefile and ingested to the ShareGeo Data Repository website.
• Harvest GUID: 6cfafdad-daf6-4b38-9e44-beaf0015710c
• Extent: Latitude: 61.65860000000001° to 49.9°
• Extent: Longitude: -8.655° to 1.79°
• Spatial reference system: WGS84 Latitude Longitude
• Dataset reference date: 2009-01-16 (publication)
• Frequency of update: notPlanned
• Responsible party: EDINA (distributor)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
• Source Metadata: HTML

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Several maps and charts may be based in whole or in part on information from other official U.S. Government sources. Copyright, classification or other restrictions may continue to exist. Refer to the original source and compilation material for this information.; The representation of international boundaries on the various maps and charts is not necessarily authoritative.; Cite the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA), or now known as National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) .